Interviews with Charles E. Wood and the Golden age Club, 1963-05-05

RT 398 F666m 1963 no. 01 - 7 Inch Reel Tape and 1 Audio Cassette Tape

6 index cards - Folklore of the Middle West, 1963, no. 1; Folklore - Kansas; Golden Age Club, Hays; Sackett, Samuel John; Wood, Charles E.; Wood, Charles W.;

Typed and handwritten notes.

Interviews with Charles E. Wood and the Golden age Club on May 5, 1963 by Charles W. Wood.

Digital Collections - FHSU Scholars Repository – Digitized Copy of Recording

00:00:16 - Introduction regarding his birth in Kentucky in 1892 and his work in the coal mines as a young teenager.

00:01:20 - Description of the coal mines

00:04:30 - Length of career as a coal miner

00:05:26 - John L. Lewis and Union benefits

00:08:20 - Working conditions

00:11:06 - Specifics of the job

00:12:53 - Mining accidents, cave-ins, and a gas explosion in 1910

00:15:23 - Death of Shirley Kittinger in a cave-in

00:16:34 - Strikes

00:18:59 - Types of coal and details about the mines

00:24:40 - Various jobs he's held

00:25:00 - Timbering and "the squeeze"

00:27:06 - Flood of 1937, working conditions, and salary

00:31:10 - Interview with the Golden Age Club on March 18, 1963 in Hays, KS by Samuel J. Sackett

00:31:30 - Mingled discussion

00:32:03 - A version of the town naming of Wamego, KS by Mrs. Frank Holcomb of Hays, KS

00:33:27 - Irish relatives coming to visit in Kansas

00:35:17 - Mingled discussion

00:37:03 - Using the moon phase and the zodiac to make farming decisions

00:39:33 - William D. Walburn, experiences moving to Kansas from Oklahoma in a covered wagon in 1897.

00:46:33 - Weather predictions

00:48:01 - Reading fortunes in coffee grounds and tea leaves

00:51:41 - Using bread board scrapings to choose a wife

00:52:54 - Recipe for "board fish"

00:53:39 - Stone posts, stone houses, and the stone museum

00:57:04 - Mingled discussion

00:59:24 - Mule jokes

01:02:15 - Fish stories

01:04:13 - Mingled discussion

01:08:31 - Making hominy

01:08:42 - Mingled discussion